Dickinson is a text-generation language.
You can try out the language on the web without installing anything.
Binaries for some platforms are available on the releases page.
Unpack the distribution, then:
make install
There is an install script which will try to download the right release for your computer:
curl -sSl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vmchale/dickinson/master/bash/install.sh | sh -sTo install, get cabal-install and GHC. Then:
cabal install language-dickinson
Manpages are installed at
emd man
So man $(emd man) will pull them up in bash, for instance.
Editor integration is available for vim.
Using vim-plug:
Plug 'vmchale/dickinson' , { 'rtp' : 'vim' }A user guide is available in markdown and as a pdf.
See man/emd.1 for man pages.
A riff on the Unix fortune program is available here. Try
emd run examples/fortune.dck
Other examples are in the
examples
directory.